The gift without the giver is rare.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.

When will you know you have enough, and what will you do then?

Film is a director's medium, and a film set is a complicated military structure - I have to keep reminding myself to stay in my place, or all will burst into chaos.

There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

Robot Wars is not a sport. Guys just play with remote controls. Now, if they were wired up and got an electrical shock each time their robot got hammered, then, yes, it would be a sport.

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

The idea of having no limits, either through education or money or possessions or power, is radically alien to everything the Bible assumes and says.

Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would recommend taking some theater.

we know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty

There's nothing to be ashamed of here. Everyone's been with Carlito's sister!